, 1887-04-07
Mrs. Emma Molloy.


Her work at Vancouver and La Camas
IN this territory has been especially
fruitful OF good, and she comes with
the highest possible concentrations
from the pastors and people of that
locality.
After she had been engaged to come
here by Mr.. Denison, the pastor Of
tie Methodist church, an article ap
peared in the OrcgORidn derogatorv
TO her character, published from Van
couVer. Mr.. Denison postponed his
meeting and spent several days in
collecting testimony, and on Tuesday
evening last heiu meeting of his
church, at which he presented the
facts so far as he could possibly col
lect them. These are the principal
facts as they appeared:
Mrs. Molloy has spent several years
IN reform work in prisons, and has
hundreds of testimonials from men
and women who have been reformed
from criminal life and restored to
virtue by her efforts Among others
was one George Graham, a forger
He professed reformation and for
some time behaved well. He won the
affections of a foster daughter of Mrs.
Alolloy-a rOor orphan whom she had
raised and educated. who was at this
time % years old Ms. Molloy was
averse to the match, as she supposed
! Graham to be married man He
| however produced divorce from his
former wife and married Cora Lee,
under the protest of Mrs. Molloy. As
Mrs. AIollOy had two other foster
children who were much younger than
| Cora, she however consented to their
occupying her home and conducting
the business of her farm. Rumors
soon became rife that Graham had
been previously remarked to his for
mer wife.
Mrs. Molloy was spending the
winter in Kansas in cyangelistic work
The former Mrs. Graham appeared
on the scene. She was met by Gra-
ham and the two children taken to
his hone He said he had sent her
to brother in Washington Territory.
This was in the fall of 1885. In Feb
ruary, 1886, body was found in a
well on the Molloy farm, supposed to
be that of the missing woman. Mrs.
Mellow was still at work in Kansas
and had spent but one week at home
Graham and wife were arrested and
Mrs. Molloy was charged with COM
plicity after the fact. g., with belp-
ing to conceal the fact. Graham made
a confession of the murder but ecm-
plete!y exhoaerated Mrs. Molloy and
Cora Lee. He was taken out of Jail
by a mob and hanged.
3Irs. Molloy and Cora Lee had a
preliminary trial before justice of
the peace. Free whisky was fur
nished by the saloons The Justice
was drunken. The women were held
to appear and were indicted. The
. indictment was quashed but was
taken before another judge and was
sustained. The state has taken two
con,inuaRces, refusing 30 try Mrs.
Molloy even when she had gone from
her work at Vancouver, 1900 miles
away, for trial
She Is endorsed 10y her pastor, Rev.
Mr.. Armstrong of Springfield, Mo.
10y her presiding elder. Rev. MIR. Al
exander OF St Louis; by Judge Baker,
au ex~circuit Judge of Missouri; by
Miss Francis Willard, Mrs. Mary
.
more Of MassachHsetts-GHs since the
trouble; and also by the state ". {.
J. | 5 uf Missouri. Indiana and Col
0JatO She has the strong endorse
ment u the Masonic fraternity of
Indiana. where she was RAISED and
vhcre her father is high Mason.
Sac has literally hundreds of testi~
moniais from men and women Of the
highest repute in Kansas, Missouri,
Indiana and Ohio.
/ Tie Springfield Neirs, a paper pub
lishsd in the town where the prelim-
mary trial was held, and edited by
i isd-- Brooks, an ex circuit judge
and member 81 the bar, says in its
i--ua 20 Jan. -: After a thorough
examination. U0t grain OF evidence
as fs the guilt of Mrs. Molloy has
Z ia to f1and, and il is safe TO say it
.U-sar uIiI bo. We
gain huti u Ia the face OF the mob
aat innocent persons have never been
ID shameiessly prosecuted as have
lsru Mrs M1lioy and Cora Lee. The
fref uf the whole business Is Mrs.
} ~ Ilay was hated by the whisky race.
hsfs.l hy women Who envy her the
=iftHu she has attained through the
uf sht q her genius, and these two
faefiaas gnitel 10 msks public senti =
H==ri and o. make criminals out OF
.fsu ls.lIss whum We believe to be as
sFatie4a ~ any completely with the
-i+raaan tragedy ~ Queen Victoria
1s.l ii- Princess - Wales Graham
EaIi bsys bad n0 motive for the
.rHHIaf taI Cora Lee and Mrs. Mol
Ha= t-uar tEe facts - his relation
aa H.s ars sife Tie dil this act
.f. E..H fl-u ff8m knowing the facts
t'f+f H.i che facts wvrc presented
f.r rtsfrh ou Tus-day evening,
-H.F rHfad unanimously 10 susiain
ST. It-al-Hu lu bis call u Mrs. Mol
. As trial has uo, been reached,
a.. a I- sui 40 liberty 10 make pub
sac fl-i.UHuy mon which she re-
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